CHAPTER XXIV
MR. DESOUZA had sold the house to a
syndicate of which he was to be one of the
directors; it was to be pulled down and the site
used for the building of mammoth cinema, air-
cooled, air-conditioned, with seven hundred seats
and a Wurlitzer organ to rise from the bowels of
the orchestra pit, playing sugar music in lights of
rainbow colours until it sank artistically down
again with the last note.
"It will change colour in the lights/' Mr,
deSouza told them, "Purple, red, orange and
prussian blue."
"But the organist, he will change colour as
well," cried Blanche. "Purple, red, orange and
prussian blue. ,. ."
"That can hardly be avoided/' said Mr.
deSouza stiffly, "You must shift before the end of
the month, Mr. Lemarchant. We must start
work at once; the house has to be entirely pulled
down."
"You can't pull down our house, it's where we
live/* said Blanche.
"Every stick, every stone will be broken up.'5
An agonizing thought had come to Blanche,
she seemed to shrink with fear, "You can't
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